Designer Job @ Burton
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- shellie0
probably not. looks like they want people who can work in a team that is at their VT office.
- minge0
bollox.
ever heard the saying, jack of all trades master of none?
there are only a select FEW out there that are shit hot in everything.. and ive never seen a shit hot point of purschase designer...!
and as far as 'icky ms pacakges' excel? powerpoint? im a designer, not a fucking salesman.. i wouldnt touch it with a shitty stick.
- mcLeod0
burlington VT is a kick ass city. its a college town and its minutes away from some of the best skiing in the US, plus the ben and jerrys production facility! cant go wrong. if i didnt have another job lined up id be all over it.
- shellie0
im a walking advertisement for burton. they should pay me every time i hit mammouth.
i wonder if burton has a jr girls team. id like to quit my job and compete. weeoooo!
- jevad0
colorado does indeed kick vermonts ass..
it's all about the champagne powder baby....
w00t
- piperboytoy0
ok, I hardly refresh this site. never mind what I type.
- unknown0
lol @ piper
- unknown0
Yo piper.. i got that article published up at Creative Behavior....
- CyBrainX0
I hate when people post an ad for a designer and then just toss in copywriting ability as a job requirement. It's as if being a designer is such a light-weight profession that you should contribute more by having another.
Aside from that, I think it's a little suspect to want a Flash/print/Creative Director type of person. This sort of thing is more likely in a smaller company where they don't understand the business that well. It shoudn't be happnening there.
Also, I would be concerned that all the good design work gets farmed out to an agency, while the person they hire mops up and gets low pay.
- minge0
there is people with common sense and a REAL understanding of what design is on here!
:D
thank fuck!
- minge0
"You’ll help create marketing materials (including, but not limited to packaging, tees, catalogs, ads, POP, interactive)
"go ahead and send us your portfolio which demonstrates exceptional skills in :-
"concepting, copywriting, typography, color and layout"
"Candidates must have solid Mac skills including the following software: Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and all those icky MS apps."
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so basicaly, there just looking for:
a conceptual designer that can copywrite aswel as design for [and artwork/technicaly produce] print, point of purchase, clothing and moving image/web.that knows the packages:
quark/indesign
illustrator/freehand
photoshop
flash
word
excel
powerpoint
and othersthat is able to take his/her idea forward thru to production
[artworking and tech production]whilst also obviously having a good understanding of typography, layout and colour.
gee, where do not sign up?
- unknown0
ummm, "some of the best skiing in the US..."
from what I've heard, for riding on ice, yes.
CO is where the best boarding is.:)
- JazX0
Burton was mu choice in the past, well in my early twenties and that was a damn nicely designed board, for sure a dream job! :) I rode that until I broke it.
- Abby_Someone0
Minge, Good luck in what little you do and good luck with the english classes. You really seem to be making progress.
I had been contacted by Burton for a Sr Designer/Team Leader position back in April.... Then they pulled the position! Talk about being broken hearted.
I guess I'm one of those long in the tooth old farts who is a JOAT-MON.
G.
- unknown0
minge
that aint that bad of requirements at all.. infact I hope most of us can do all that..
that seems like basic design skills to me.. and if you think differnt you better freshen up on da skills
- jpea0
you wanna see ice boarding? come to minnesota.. the land or skiing/boarding on glare ice!
we have the big ol' mountains that are measured in 50' increments of vert. many many broken bones due to this...
- minge0
yeah?
wow to be contacted by burton to be offered a job is great.
wonder why they pulled the plug?
- BonSeff0
i dont think most designers here dabble in packaging or pop or print at all for that matter. shit i love print most but i couldnt action script my way out of a wet paper bag. to be honest i dont know how anyone can get it all down pat in 1-3 years. package design is tricky i know, flash sites are as well i can only asume.
maybe schools are that good these days. not that the requirements are that far fatched, just my drunken opinion..
again :P
whoever can do it all is a badass and has been around the block for a while
- believe0
burton has always had the kick ass sites. without a doubt..
sounds like the most kick ass job anyone could dream of. i'll be dreaming of it while i get another surgery this month from my snowboarding accident last winter! RIDE OR DIE!!!
Colorado kicks Vermonts ass.
and if you didn't know, for all you unemployed designers out there - this would be a very ideal job - fuck other people's image - build your own! Be Burton!
- Abby_Someone0
I'm sure it's 'cause I'm an asshole.